Amazon opens new marketplace for wine

Amazon.com Inc. is now selling wine online at its own site, with Amazon available to ship wine to residents of 12 states and the District, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported< .

Wines on Amazon’s new wine site range from a 187-ML can of 2011 Francis Ford Coppola Winery Sofia Mini Blanc de Blancs for $5 to a 3-liter bottle of 2008 Mercer Estates (Columbia Valley, Wash.) Cabernet Sauvignon for $199.99.